El enigma de la Mona Lisa desnuda, El artista que pintó el fondo marino, Los ángeles mosqueteros del Nuevo Mundo, Los misteriosos retratos de hombres en llamas o La legión de hombres lobo del Ejército romano: una estrafalaria exploración de la vertiente más curiosa del arte, con pinturas, esculturas, dibujos y otras rarezas artísticas extrañas.
Okwui Enwezor's 2016 exhibition Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965 redefined the history of art produced in those two decades.
Ökonomische Bildung ist nachgefragt, ob als Finanz- oder Wirtschafts-, Verbraucher- oder sozioökonomische Bildung, neuerdings auch als 'Entrepreneurship Education', und zielt damit auf vielerlei ab: auf die Anbahnung eines kritischen (Selbst-)Verständnisses als Verbraucher:in, auf politische Teilhabe, auf Fragen einer nachhaltigen Wirtschaftlichkeit, vielleicht auch auf Zurichtung im Hinblick auf Markttauglichkeit.
In seinem autobiografischen Roman schildert Jakob Senn mit umwerfendem Charme das Heranwachsen des Hans Grünauer, eines Bauernsohns, der früh an den Webstuhl gesetzt wird, um zum Unterhalt der Familie beizutragen.
A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance ItalyIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of goods from Portuguese trading voyagesfruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people.
This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we live, think, act and design: the assumption of dualism, or the fundamental separateness of things.
This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment.
Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism explores the entwinement of mobility and immobility in urban spaces by focusing on their representation in literary narratives but also in visual and performing arts.
Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry is a study of psychiatric institutes and psychiatric violence as seen through art created by the inhabitants of a psychiatric hospital.
This book examines the many functions of paper in the fine art and aesthetics of the early twentieth-century modernist or historic avant-garde (Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Constructivism and many more).
This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we live, think, act and design: the assumption of dualism, or the fundamental separateness of things.
This volume focuses on Jewish American identity within the context of Pop art in New York City during the sixties to reveal the multivalent identities and selves often ignored in Pop scholarship.
Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism explores the entwinement of mobility and immobility in urban spaces by focusing on their representation in literary narratives but also in visual and performing arts.
Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry is a study of psychiatric institutes and psychiatric violence as seen through art created by the inhabitants of a psychiatric hospital.
A major reassessment of the methods and meaning of impressionismAt pivotal moments in his career, Claude Monet would go out with a fellow artist, plant his easel beside his friend's, and paint the same scene.
Die Termini "übersetzen" und "sprachmitteln" bezeichnen komplexe Phänomene, die in den Fremdsprachendidaktiken immer schon intensiv thematisiert wurden.
Memories of an Art Collector arises from the need to gather, organise and disseminate the experience, memories and reflections of Jorge Helft as a collector of contemporary art, manager and promoter of cultural activities, and as a privileged witness of the national art scene since the late 1940s.
This volume presents a broad coverage of theoretical issues that deal with digital culture, representation and ideology in art and museums, and other cultural sites, offering new insights into issues of representation in the digitization of art.
This interdisciplinary book investigates the various ways in which North American and European modern and contemporary artists, authors, and musicians have returned to earlier works of their own, engaging in inventive revivals and transformations of the past in the present.
This volume presents a broad coverage of theoretical issues that deal with digital culture, representation and ideology in art and museums, and other cultural sites, offering new insights into issues of representation in the digitization of art.
This interdisciplinary book investigates the various ways in which North American and European modern and contemporary artists, authors, and musicians have returned to earlier works of their own, engaging in inventive revivals and transformations of the past in the present.
En la construcción de la imagen estética de Andalucía tuvieron un papel importante los viajeros, muchos de ellos artistas, que seleccionaron con su mirada las características que fueron dibujando la identidad de nuestro país.
Drawing on thousands of historical documents from Polish and Dutch archives, this book explores Cold War cultural exchange between so-called 'smaller powers' of this global conflict, which thus far has been predominately explored from the perspective of the two superpowers or more pivotal countries.
Este libro es el resultado del proyecto de investigación Presencia de América en Madrid y ha visto la luz gracias a la colaboración entre la Comunidad de Madrid y la Agencia Estatal de Investigación.
Drawing on thousands of historical documents from Polish and Dutch archives, this book explores Cold War cultural exchange between so-called 'smaller powers' of this global conflict, which thus far has been predominately explored from the perspective of the two superpowers or more pivotal countries.
Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna shows how photography and film in turn-of-the-century Vienna (the birthplace of psychoanalysis) not only reflected modernist ideas already in force, but helped to bring into being what might be referred to as a "e;psychoanalytic imagination.
Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna shows how photography and film in turn-of-the-century Vienna (the birthplace of psychoanalysis) not only reflected modernist ideas already in force, but helped to bring into being what might be referred to as a "e;psychoanalytic imagination.
